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By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  Well, it started on Saturday… this Jesus thing, he’s been around me for some reason.  Oh, but he thinks it’s funny that I call him “Jay-sus” lol ;)  Jesus would really be a drag if he had no sense of humor, ya’ know? 

Anyway, I thought nothing more about it after Saturday, but there he was again this morning…  He went shopping with me, heh :)   Today was my errand day.  And it was an exceedingly icky day weatherwise — icy cold, and highly wet, rain or really cold mist all day long.  I shivered as I closed my umbrella and walked into the post office and around the corner to the area where my p.o. box is located. 

Very unusual, a little lady with coal-colored hair appeared outta nowhere, and was opening a box not far from mine.  I said something about the icky weather and she said something sweetly about being grateful :)  “Yeah, you’re right…” I responded.  Then, also out of the blue, she said to me, ”Remember Jesus is always with you, no matter where you go.” :)  That really stoked me, since having had the Jesus energy around me just a coupla days before.  I just smiled at her, thinking “You are Jesus, sweetie.” 

My next stop, minutes later, was the grocery store…  As I looked for a park, I noticed where someone had written on the front of a car, “I (heart symbol) you.”  That was so close to the mention of Jesus, I couldn’t help but think that was him talking to me again ;)  { Update: Hey, I was just re-reading this, and realized that I hadn’t tied this “I (heart) you” with my other Jesus post where I noted that I had sang “Jesus loves me…” as a little one…ah, that just makes me smile all over again :) }  Throughout the day I was seeing and hearing things that aligned with this energy…  even hearing “Jesus” a couple of times on the radio as it scanned.  At one point, I felt I was chatting with him in my mind, mostly joking with each other :) 

Then I started seeing the number 16 everywhere, that usually represents, for me, the Tower card in the Tarot (number 16).  Interestingly, I had a day last year around this time when I began seeing the 16 like that, but that one last year was unnerving, I felt the Tower inside me, I shook inside (like the Tower), it frightened me … and sure enough, it proved to be a warning of something not-so-good about to happen…  But I lived through it, and came out of it for the better.

But this one today was different, I felt no fear, and I saw positive things around the 16.  So I felt this, unlike the other, was a positive message.  The Tower card can represent “enlightenment,” and freedom…even just a surprise.  At one point I was in a store, browsing, and I began seeing it again on items in the store.   I felt I was about to get a “surprise,” and felt I might be seeing someone that I knew…  And sure enough, just before I walked out of the store, in walked a co-worker I never would have imagined seeing there — it really did shock me (surprise)  :) 

At the end of the day, in the parking lot of my last stop for “errand day,” I was backing out and saw flashing lights at a distance, an emergency vehicle.  As I got on the main road for home, more emergency vehicles (I don’t think they were related to the other), about four of them, I had to pull over a couple of times…  These also reflect “Tower” energy…but again, I noted that I felt no fear inside from them…  I glanced at a license plate in front of me that simply said, “Sun” and that made me smile… that’s the “God/dess” card in the Tarot, a card about much joy.  My favorite card…

I’d gotten a lot of messages through the day like “No problem,” and “Don’t worry.”  So that was comforting.  Also many things that represent intuition, and “magic” and, of course, Jesus is part of that :) 

Still not entirely sure why Jesus has been hanging out with me lately, but I did get a strong message about “Heaven” at one point today.  I’d been getting that the Six of Cups card is related to it.  That is a sweet card that can represent home and joy and peace…  “Jesus” told me that this is “heaven” — it’s all the same thing – peace, “home,” joy — “Heaven.”  Ahh, so that’s what it meant when I heard years ago, at a climactic point in my life, that I was “getting closer to home.”  Home, peace, joy — “heaven” :)  I hope Jesus’ visit means I’m just almost there — I think so :)   I’m feeling very “blessed” lately…

Thanks Jay-sus, I heart you too *muah* ;)

Peace,
Dove

By Dove, www.TarotwithLove.com  A day or so ago, I asked the Universe, through a book, what was in store for me in 2008.

I’ve mentioned on here before how one of my favorite ways to get answers is to do my “ask-a-book” ritual, and, although any book works, I especially love using a book called, “The Language of Letting Go,” by Melody Beattie.  The answers I get from it are invariably mind-blowingly specific, and on point.  And all I do is sit and fill my mind with the energy of my question (i.e., I think about it, focus intently on it) and then I simply open the book randomly. 

Like with the Tarot, I use my left hand, because it’s governed by our “right brain.”  And a quick interjection, isn’t it interesting how we generally use our right hand (governed by our logical left side), almost allowing our left arm/hand to atrophy.  A testament as to how we as a society hold our right-brain energy (feminine, intuition, emotion) in such low regard…  Anyway, I use my left hand so as to “stoke” my intuitive side.  I open the book and often “hear” what area of the two pages has my answer, like “Top, right.” 

With my question, “What’s in store for me in 2008?,” I opened to a section called, “Celebrate”   In the area of the two pages I was guided to, I zeroed in on this phrase as the specific answer, …”we begin to experience the fullness and joy of life“  Well, it’s about frickin’ time, lol ;)  Yay!  *turning cartwheels* lol  Sounds good to me :)   Another phrase here that jumps out, “I will indulge in the joy of celebrating.”  A wonderful message to get on the eve of a brand new year :)

Here are some other statements under this “Celebrate” section in the spirit of celebrating … and I feel are very on point.

“Take time to celebrate.  Celebrate your successes, your growth, your accomplishments.  Celebrate you and who you are.  For too long, you have been too hard on yourself.  Others have spilled their negative energy — their attitudes, beliefs, pain — on you.  It had nothing to do with you!  {Dove:  Hey, I told them that, lol}  All along you have been a gift to yourself and to the Universe.  {Dove:  Ahhh.}  You are…beautiful, a delight, a joy.  You do not have to try harder, be better, be perfect, or be anything you are not.  Your beauty is in you, just as you are each moment.  When you have a success, when you accomplish something, enjoy it.  Pause, reflect, rejoice.  Too long you have listened to admonitions not to feel good about what you have done… Celebrate all that is in your life.  Celebrate all that is good.  Celebrate you!”  :)

Now there is a bit of caveat on the opposite page.  The full statement per the phrase I mentioned above is this,

“Whenever we begin to experience the fullness and joy of life, we may feel guilty about those we’ve left behind — those not recovering, those still in pain…a symptom of codependency.  We may get a phone call from a nonrecovering parent who relates his or her misery to us.  And we feel pulled into their pain … And yes, it hurts to leave behind those we love.  But keep moving forward anyway.  Be patient.  Other people’s recovery is not our business.”

There is a certain person in my not-so-distant past that I’m still working on forgiving.  I know forgiveness is for me, and that until I do it, it’s an obstacle in my life.  I don’t believe he’s “recovering,” or healing his heart from the traumas he’s endured in his life.  But I hope that he will, because I know, under all that insecure ego stuff, all that blaming of others, all that power-mongering, and that seeming need for deception to somehow keep himself “safe,” there is a good heart.  I’ve seen it :)  But I think the above message is to remind me not to allow him to pull me back into his unconscious need for conflict and problematic relationships, a need to have someone around that he can blame all his “bad luck” on.  He needs to know, it won’t ever be me again.

Yep, I’m gonna keep healing from all the icky stuff ;) and keep on growing in that wonderful self-love thing :) … and allow myself the joy of each and every, big and small, success along the way.  I’m gonna do as the Universe is advising through this fabulous book of incomparable wisdom.  I’m going to learn how, and allow the time, to really, really joyfully celebrate in 2008, yay! 

My mantra:  “Celebrate 2008, celebrate 2008, celebrate 2008! … “  Haha! ;)

Wishing all a mega-joyful celebration called 2008! 

Woohoo! *more cartwheels* lol ;)

Peace,
Dove

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